Publications by authors named "Branko JalZiC"
Genome-centric metagenomes unveiling the hidden resistome in an anchialine cave.
Environ Microbiome
September 2024
Article Synopsis
- * This first comprehensive study in an anchialine cave revealed various ARGs, with bacitracin resistance and multidrug resistance being the most prevalent, influenced by the cave's salinity gradient.
- * The findings indicate that these caves may serve as reservoirs for unknown resistance genes and highlight the importance of further research on ARGs in unique ecosystems for better understanding and addressing antibiotic resistance.
In the present study morphological and molecular data from specimens of the troglobitic genus Speoplanes have been examined. The two subspecies Speoplanes giganteus giganteus Müller, 1911 and Speoplanes giganteus biocovensis Müller, 1934 are changed in rank from subspecies to species level and discrete identification characters for the separation of the two species are provided. Additionally, all known localities of the species (including new records) are listed and a distribution map of the genus is provided.
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- The text details the discovery and description of seven new species of a cave-dwelling, eyeless genus called Thaumastocephalus from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Each species, including T. bilandzijae, T. kirini, T. marsici, T. rujnicensis, T. slavkoi, T. troglavi, and T. dahnae, is illustrated, with a focus on their reproductive structures (aedeagi).
- Additionally, the document provides a key for identifying these species and includes a discussion of their distributions, supported by maps of cavernicolous Pselaphinae in the Dinarides region.
Melledobythus bilandzijae, new cavernicolous genus and species of the tribe Bythinini is described from the island of Mljet, Croatia. A detailed morphological study is presented. The new genus belongs to the phylogenetic lineage of small and anophthalmous Bythinini that lack sutural elytral striae.
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